The NVIDIA R555 driver beta for Linux has been released, featuring explicit synchronization support for Wayland and other important improvements. This release includes Wayland explicit sync support with the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for DRM sync objects, which should address various Wayland issues. The driver also now uses the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware by default on RTX 20/Turing GPUs and later.
Other changes in the NVIDIA 555.42.02 driver beta for Linux include removing support for Base Mosaic on GeForce GPUs, increasing the base kernel version requirement to v4.15, adding support for out-of-the-box presentation mode to Vulkan Wayland WSI, enabling 10-bit per-component HDMI support by default, and support for using EGL instead of GLX as OpenGL ICD for NvFBC. The release also includes many bug fixes.
For more information and downloads of the NVIDIA 555 Linux driver beta, visit NVIDIA’s website. Stay tuned for new NVIDIA Linux benchmarks coming soon to Phoronix.
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